Constantine (2005)

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Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Rating: R
Release Date: Feb 18, 2005
Running Time: 122 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
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John Constantine has been to hell and back. Born with a gift he didn’t want, the ability to clearly recognize the half-breed angels and demons that walk the earth in human skin, Constantine was driven to take his own life to escape the tormenting clarity of his vision. But he failed. Resuscitated against his will, he found himself cast back into the land of the living. Now, marked as an attempted suicide with a temporary lease on life, he patrols the earthly border between heaven and hell, hoping in vain to earn his way to salvation by sending the devil’s foot soldiers back to the depths. But Constantine is no saint. Disillusioned by the world around him and at odds with the one beyond, he’s a hard-drinking, hard-living bitter hero who scorns the very idea of heroism. Constantine will fight to save your soul but he doesn’t want your admiration or your thanks--and certainly not your sympathy. All he wants is a reprieve. When a desperate but skeptical police detective enlists his help in solving the mysterious death of her beloved twin sister, their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists just beneath the landscape of contemporary Los Angeles. Caught in a catastrophic series of otherworldly events, the two become inextricably involved and seek to find their own peace at whatever cost.
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John Constantine is a little like The Matrix's Neo--an ultra-cool but tormented man of little words, with a sardonic, fatalistic outlook on life, who kicks a myriad of nasty-looking demons (instead of a myriad of nasty-looking machines) back from whence they came. Yes, Reeves has done this before but that's because he's good at it. You can't blame him for sticking with something that works. Weisz also holds her own as the devoutly religious Angela, who nonetheless has a hard time believing there… Continued

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rating  PETER TRAVERS - February 17, 2005
It would be easy to spew critical bile at Constantine, based on the series of Hell-blazer graphic novels from DC Comics/Vertigo, if the movie -- call it eye candy for the damned -- didn't scare up some devilish fun. Keanu Reeves, still in Neo black -- it's his color -- stars as John Constantine, a chain-smoking Los Angeles private eye with terminal lung cancer. And that's the least of his problems. As a teen, he offended God by trying to off himself, having been driven mad by his power to see… Continued